VUM plug-in missing i vSphere UI
Just had a vCenter 6.7 Update 3i, where I did not see the VUM plug-in. there was no information in the logs, or any other places, the only thing was that en vSphere-UI Client toke a long time to start, and it toke a long time to login to it. I could see that there…
vLCM error 404 after upgrading to vCenter 7.0.1d
I have just upgrade a vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.1d, and when i went into the “Lifecycle manager” in the vCenter client, i got this error Status 404 – https://x.x.x.x/ui/vum-ui/rest/vcenters/5a8040e2-5dca-454a-87f4-303c3cb2f9b1/compliance This is just a browser cache problem after using the browser in incognito/privatebrowsing, i did not get this error, and a restart of the browser cleared…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1c Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 update 1c, ESXi 7.0 1c and earlier they released VMware Tools 11.2.1. vCenter 7.0 update 1c What’s new: Physical NIC statistics: vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1c adds five physical NIC statistics:droppedRx, droppedTx, errorsRx, RxCRCErrors and errorsTx, to the hostd.log file at /var/run/log/hostd.log to enable you detect uncorrected networking errors and take necessary corrective action. Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion: With vCenter…
10fb does not support flow control autoneg
This is a follow up on a blog that Brian F. Knutsson wrote last year, about a Intel network driver that spammed the VMware ESXi logs, and vCenter event log. In the Blog from Brian the solution was to change from the Native driver and to the Linux style drive. See the blog here: https://vm.knutsson.it/2018/07/10fb-does-not-support-flow-control-autoneg/…
Citrix Netscaler VPX and vMotion Problems
A couple of my Colleague, Claus Andersen and Jørgen Rosenkvist Pedersen have had some customers that have had problem with Citrix NetScaler VPX and HPE Blade C7000 with virtual connects. The problem may also exist in other types of hardware After vMotion of the Citrix NetScaler VPX from one blade to another, one of the network ports in the destination…
HPE Customized ESXi Image, Removed from Download
There is found a critical issues in a combination of firmware and driver in the HPE customized ESXi images. så the affected versions have been removed from the VMware download page. The message stats that they will upload a new version October 6. 2017, this is for ESXi 6.5 Update 1, but it's the same for…
After HPE 3Par StoreServ update, Veeam integration fails
After updating 3Par to 3.2.2Mu3, the storage integration for Veeam fail with a message like this. Veeam have created a private fix for this. Contact Veeam Support to get the fix, issue number #84029.
HPE StoreServ/3Par iSCSI high latency
I have a customer who has a new HPE StoreServ 8200 All-Flash (Formerly HP/3Par), efter the installation I noticed that the storage had a high latency for a All Flash storage array, So I was talking with my colleague who did the installation of the HPE StoreServ installation if there was any problem with the Storage Array,…
HP Servers loses connection to SD Card
I have some customer running ESXi installed on SD Card on HP Proliant servers Gen8 and Gen9, that has have problems where the ESXi could not write to the SD Card. Some of them got this message i the vSphere Client. Other has tried to update/upgrade hosts, and after reboot, it was still the same build. All of them…
HP Smart Array p440ar and vSphere 6.0 patches
I had a customer/colleague that was upgrading there HP DL380p Gen9 server with local datastores on a HP Smart Array p440ar, with the new patches from VMware, they was doing this manually, from command line. After a reboot the local storage was not accessible, and the Controller was not visible any more. The problem is that the new patches…